Large orphanage building with Colonial architecture in Lexington, Kentucky. There are African American children and adults in the front yard and on the porch. The children all wear uniforms or at least similar clothing.

Black men and boys with fishing poles sit at the top of a log dam beside a building made of logs and stone. Below the dam, two white men in a boat with a paddle appear to be fixing the fishing line of one of the boys.

Three men break hemp on a rolling field of hemp and craggy trees, possibly in Mercer County, Kentucky. Two men operate hand brakes and the man in center holds aloft a mass of hemp dangling to the ground like a large blanket. A shack and outhouse...

Water flows out of two spouts in an artesian mineral water well, landing in two buckets. To the right of the well, a man is drinking from a cup. Left of the well, a woman; three men; and a boy pose for the camera. The well is situated on some lumpy...

A group of men in suits and hats, evidently members of the Hopkinsville Bankers Association, stand in front of the Hotel Latham. This Italian Renaissance style hotel was erected in 1894, and named for Hopkinsville native and philanthropist, John C....

The Baptist Church of Glasgow, Kentucky, a brick church with a pointed turret and arched windows, is seen in the foreground; a man in a suit stands in front along one of the weathered picket fences encircling parts of the yard, which also contains...

Seven men work at different stages of making brooms in front of a building of unpainted, long vertical wood boards. The building has two peaked roofs and several porches with slanting roofs. A row of brooms leans along the front porch railings;...

Four many-passengered canoes float low in the water on a placid lake glinting in the sun; one woman holds a parasol and some passengers wear hats. Part of a rocky shore is visible in the photograph's lower right corner. The backdrop of the lake is...

Outside a wooden house with one and two story sections, a horse and buggy is parked and another horse grazes beside a tree. A woman and two children or--possibly--seated adults sit on the porch, and a man leans on the outside of a four board fence...

Four carts, each led by a mule team and carrying passengers, in front of a small, open-sided shack in the woods, at the base of a large hill covered in bare trees. Four onlookers stand in a row at the edge of the shack, to the left of which is a...

A group of men in suits posing on and around a carriage with spoke wheels several feet taller than the men on the dirt road in front of McCord & Adams Carriage Company. Two horses are hitched to the carriage, and a banner attached to one of the...

A team of horses and mules, one with a rider, pull four men (three standing, one sitting) on a cart. One man holds onto a large wheel. Two men stand on the dirt road; one is holding onto a yoke. At the right of the road are some unpainted wood...

A group of men with mule-drawn wagons stand on a road with a table in the middle of it. The table has a stack of cans arranged on it and there is a shovel, axe and sledge hammer arranged leaning on one another in the road in front of the table.